It is recommended to take a bath on the morning of `Eed. Naafi` reported that:

"`Abdullaah Bin `Umar () used to take ghusl (bath) on
the day of Fitr before proceeding to the musallaa (prayer place)."
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Sa`eed Bin al-Musayyib (r) said:

"There are three sunnahs2 for Fitr: walking to the
musallaa, eating before you go, and performing ghusl."3

Imaam Ibn Qudaamah said:

"It is recommended to perform ghusl for `Eed. Ibn `Umar
would perform ghusl on the day of Fitr; and `Alee is reported to have
done so as well4. This is also the opinion of `Alqamah, `Urwah,
`Ataa', an-Nakh`ee, ash-Shi`bee, Qataadah, Abu az-Zinad, Maalik,
ash-Shaafi`ee, and Ibn ul-Munthir."5

The reports regarding Allaah's Messenger performing ghusl for the
`Eed or commanding people to perform it are all weak.6

Recorded by Maalik, ash-Shaafi`ee, and `Abdurrazzaaq as-San`aanee in the Musannaf; it has an authentic chain. - Back to text

He might mean that is was the sunnah (way) of the sahaabah (). - Back to text

Al-Faryabaadee with an authentic chain; see Irwaa' ul-Ghaleel. - Back to text

A man asked `Alee () about ghusl; so he said, "You can perform ghusl every day if you wish." He said, "I do not mean that; I mean the days on which one should make ghusl." He () said:

"The day of Jumu_ah, the day of _Arafah, the day of Nahr (Sacrifice), and the day of Fitr." Recorded by al-Bayhaqee with an authentic chain of narrators. See Irwaa` ul-Ghaleel.

Recorded in Sunan Ibn Maajah, No. 1315, "Allaah's Messenger performed ghusl on the day of Fitr and the day of Adha." Its chain contains Jubaarah Bin al-Mughallis and his shaykh, both of which are weak. There is also another weak report with additional wording in No. 1316, whose chain contains Yoosuf Bin Khdaalid as-Samtee, who has been known to lie. See Irwaa' ul-Ghaleel. - Back to text